I was under the (mistaken) impression he stepped away when he left to work at MS.

Huh. I thought he had stepped away when he left for MS…

Another good reason Poettering left the project. This was a hill he wanted to die on… glibc only.

guids like these: https://guidgenerator.com/

A huge problem are developers who lack a fundamental understanding of how the internet even works. I’ve had to explain how short, unqualified names resolve vs how fqdns resolve. Or why even you may not be able to reach another node in your proverbial cluster, because they are on different subnets. Or, why using GUIDs as hostnames is a generally bad idea, and will cause things to fail in unpredictable ways, especially with deeply nested subdomains.

Oh, yeah, I guess I kinda tossed that out there, as they do host a ton of servives. However, its very welcoming as an onboard ramp to learn about *nix stuff. Just ease yourself into that, while exploring Disroot and RiseUp :)

Tildeverse.org

Disroot.org

Riseup.net

Instead of self hosting, why not try better offerings?

Most anything you probably use Google for, you can do with a disroot account. Riseup is a great group, with many similar services (not all). The tildeverse also has myriad replacement services.

Just try to support them, financially.

The flea market I go to has none of that.

What mechanisms are there to limit bad actors on ebay and other commercial marketplaces?

Very little.

I’d believe it.

I was perma banned from reddit for reporting an ICE raid… reason? Promoting race based hatred.

More akin to Elon insisting the cybertruck is the way of the future, and people just keep buying Rivians and internal combustion vehicles.

Thats… literally what happens. Like when the owner of a bar calls it quit, and leaves.

How do ypu think communities “naturally” come and go?

Communities don’t have heary attacks, or get a new child or something…

All communities work like that…

There is no real need for the kind of permanence you think you need.

Imagine if a building could only be a bar, for perpetuity, and nobody opened any other bars, because that first bar existed.

Bars would suck for like… 99.99999% of the human population, huh?

So…

Start alternatives, on a host ypu maintain, and then everything can be ran perfectly how you want it to run

Problem solved.

Depends on the motivation, honestly. The military revolution in Chiapas worked well. Same with the one in Cuba, Vietnam, and a number of other places.

So… Trump is a security risk, and yet…